Is Your Lending Library Missing This Essential Component?

Many piano teachers have a lending library to send home supplementary repertoire with their piano students… but does your lending library include piano games?

Piano teachers are having a blast using our games from PianoGameClub during lesson time and now many are getting really smart and sending them with their students as take-home activities as well.

And we think this is absolutely brilliant… and here’s why:

A lending library of games gets parents immediately involved in their children’s piano education. Many parents may not have polished piano chops, but sitting down to play a music-based game with their children is a much more realistic option.

Building on Point 1… take-home piano games help parents build their own musical knowledge. Rarely do we consider helping our parents become more musical, but, wow, does it ever make a difference when parents know their way around some musical concepts. And piano games can help make this happen.

Games from PianoGameClub look awesome. We work with close to ten different professional artists in creating our games. So when you’re sending home awesome looking games with your students… you look awesome too!

Finally, take-home piano games are a great way to build upon concepts learned during a piano lesson. And since we send out 4 new piano games to our members each and every month, teachers are building an awesome library of games to match any concept being learned.

So, if you’ve been thinking about adding piano games to your repertoire of teaching tools, click on the image below to see sample pages from the 4 games our members receive in the month of April. If you like what you see, and you’re pretty sure that piano games like Rhythm Thief, Switch Ship, Gophers in the Garden, and Chute2Score will be enjoyed by you and your students, (and their families!) join in on the fun and become a PianoGameClub member.

The games are awesome, and many can be adapted to suit different levels of experience. I have just played ‘CodeCracker’ with a six-year old on his third lesson, using only the blank cards the teacher can fill in herself, and had tremendous fun. I can’t imagine lesson life now without Piano Club games.

Me neither Julia! Lessons are so much more fun (for me too!) with new games all the time. The kids run to my game basket as soon as they come in the door eager to see what I’ve got for them. It’s so refreshing 🙂 Thanks so much for your kind comment!

There is no other way for me to say Thank You for your games. And for your unlimited studio use of your monthly music (my students’ favorite). And for the effort you put into producing them. I hope you are richly rewarded (in more ways than one!). Thank you

What an awesome idea! I’m totally excited about this. Thinking maybe of letting my students borrow games as an incentive, so it will get them practising more too! I always wish I had more time to play games at the lesson, they are SUCH a great way to reinforce concepts, or teach new ones painlessly. But often there just isn’t time! So thank you, Andrea and Trevor, for making the games and giving us the ideas. You are such a blessing to so many of us!!! (and our students too!)

I agree, these games are awesome. Not only are my students enjoying them, I am too! They can all be adapted to suit the needs/level of the student. Eg Snip is a great game, but I wanted it to teach recognition of the open strings on violin, so I adapted it for that and my violin students loved it. I look forward to the beginning of each month to get more games. Thanks for your creativity, it’s very inspiring!

My studio just finished up with a recital and a piano contest last weekend. So, we are due for some fun times! All of my students are playing Seadog Sinking and Kick Flick this week. One of my students asked if he could ever take home one of the games! 🙂 That’s why I’m on this post today.

I wanted to see if you had any limitations or suggestions for sharing them with students…lending vs printing & giving, etc. Thanks!!

Have you guys created a post about how to organize a game library? Do you lend the games to students for free or rent them by the week? How do you handle it if a student loses or damages the game while they are borrowing it? I’m excited to start regularly offering piano games to students, and I love the idea of a lending library!